Healthy adult kidney demonstrates minimal CD44, but CD44 is up-regulated in renal diseases. CD44 may mediate binding of calcium oxalate crystals to tubular epithelia via the ligands osteopontin ...

A new research paper was published in Oncotarget is titled, "Osteopontin induces mitochondrial biogenesis in deadherent cancer cells." Metastasizing cells display a unique metabolism, which is ...

Research published ahead of print in the journal Function presents a new mathematical model using opossum kidney cells to study the endocytic capacity of proximal tubule cells in the kidneys.

That could make kidney transplants, the most effective treatment currently available for these patients, unnecessary. Infantile cystinosis, the most common and most severe type of cystinosis, occurs ...